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Mychal's Prayer:
c. Holy Name Province
Lord, take me where You want me to go,
let me meet who You want me to meet,
tell me what You want me to say,
and keep me out of Your way.
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> Hear Mychal's Prayer in Song! > here
"For it is with music we pray twice" -- St. Augustine
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Christmas with Father Mychal:
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He turned down an invitation to spend Christmas Day with a friend’s family. Later the friend asked how he spent Christmas. Mychal replied,
“I visited folks in seven hospitals.”
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Asked what he wanted for Christmas, he said
"Absolutely nothing! I have everything in the world!” Then he gave the winter coat off his back to a homeless woman in the street --
"She needed it more than me."
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"God is not an obligation or a burden,"
Mychal wrote, "God is the joy of my life!"
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+ Father Mike, pray for us, that we may make room for Christ this Christmas.
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Excerpts from the
Last Homily of Father Mychal Judge
FDNY Chaplain,
at Mass for Firefighters: Sept. 10, 2001
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You do what God has called you to do.
You get on that rig,
you go out and do the job.
No matter how big the call,
no matter how small,
you have no idea of what
God is calling you to do, but
God needs you. He needs me.
He needs all of us.
God needs us
to keep supporting each other,
to be kind to each other,
to love each other…
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We love this job, we all do.
What a blessing it is!
It’s a difficult, difficult job, but
God calls you to do it
and indeed, He gives you a love for it
so that a difficult job will be well done.
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Isn’t God wonderful ?!
Isn’t He good to you,
to each one of you, and to me?
Turn to God each day--
put your faith, your trust, your hope
and your life in His hands.
He’ll take care of you
and you’ll have a good life.
And this firehouse
will be a great blessing
to this neighborhood and to this city.
Amen.
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(see full text of Mychal's Last Homily here)